J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

Wash your mouth out Freedapeep, one is not allowed to mention S.......s on this site.

Re slope communication, whatever happened to yodelling? It should reach anyone within 300/400 metres.

Course it does take a bit of practise....

Jan, your analysis of the lift queue day process was good, it's how we operate during the day. However, I disagree with you when you say that predicting queues is not productive. There is a method/direction selection of getting through the Niederau gondola queue that is much quicker than the alternatives. Of course, I am not going to say what that is!

It is not possible to use this method in America, because there is queueing lines process, a bit like cars moving alternately. Europe, however, is more of a free-for-all.

My observations are that queues move in certain ways, and people interact with them differently. If you are using a lift queue on a repeat basis, when you enter the queue, observe the people at the bottom. Then choose left, right or centre. As you near the head of the queue, check where those other people are, behind, level, or ahead?

Next time you use the lift, go to the previous quicker line element, and check. After four runs, you should have the theory checked out.

In most cases, either the extreme left, or the extreme right will be a minimum of 25% quicker than the centre.

As Tony-H would say ~ Fact.

Rossfrae wrote

Credit cards make spending money too easy. It is the worst type of "borrowing" you could use.

If you only spend enough that you clear the debt off each month, there would not seem to be an issue.

The upside, from my viewpoint, and using airmiles, has been half a dozen flights to the alps, and two car hires ~ gratis.

Don't use the Ipod on the slopes, too dangerous, need all the remaining faculties to survive. But ski to stuff in my head.

Easy Cruising ~
Blood Red Roses and Woodstock, Mathews Southern Comfort, Second Spring album
Fire and Rain, James Taylor
Hotel California, Eagles

Easy, easy cruising ~
Coro del Nabucco, German words, Verdi
Teach Your Children Well, CSN&Y
Kufsteiner Lied, c/w Yodel chorus. (This does lead to odd looks from co-skiers)
Strawberry Fields Forever, Beatles


Quick piste turns ~
American Pie

Off Piste ~
All You Need is Snow, Beatles
California Dreamin, Jose Feliciano

You are quite right Mike, no amount of Zipfer will cause me to give up the secret.

It would be one special day to ski alongside Pav, with great skirlies of snow flying over our shoulders.

Thanks for the images Dave. Only the one in the yellow suit is of real interest. It's the admirable technique, you understand....

This item, taking advantage of the rainy weather, co-incides with phase one of me eco-friendlying my house. Phase one is to upgrade the loft insulation to half a metre thick. So this precipitated a loft clearout, 32 years of accumulation of 40 years of garbage.

Hundreds of cardboard boxes were opened and checked, 95% rubbish, 5% historical gems. Old pics of ski classes, certificates, race pics, boxes of bindings, several pairs of sticks, ten pairs of skis, three went to the tip.

Engineering mags, Gearbox brochures, college projects, patent certificates, motors, fans, fix-it books on all the cars I ever owned.....

So, among the pile of old ski stuff, appears two ski mags.

Ski World, October '73, Frontpiece is a pic of young lady, yellow ski suit, sat right back on her skis, going at speed over a bump, ski top open to the waist...Yup.Inside, boots for sale, new, £25_£35. GlobalSki offering ski holidays to Mayrhofen, Niederau, St Anton, etc, from £27. A feature on Obergurgl, two weeks from £59. Ski insurance £4.

Skiing Jan 1974. Jean Claude Killy's own Story. Coverage of inaugaral hotdogging association. An article by Junior Bounos, a powder master, who began teaching at Alta in 1947. He describes side-slipping in powder. A watercolour of "Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird. Oh, and the Snowbird lift pass was $7 a day.

I might just keep these gems.